Comments on: revisiting windows xp http://mikehearn.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/revisiting-windows-xp/ Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:22:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: 赖洪礼的 blog » Blog Archive » “help meee!!! yum broke my system!” http://mikehearn.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/revisiting-windows-xp/#comment-465 赖洪礼的 blog » Blog Archive » “help meee!!! yum broke my system!” Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:09:31 +0000 http://plan99.net/~mike/blog/?p=11#comment-465 [...] Mike’s past blog entry absolutely hit the nail. I too am a fellow Fedora 4 user. A few days ago I ran yum check-update. And look! Shiny KDE updates! Even though I’m an avid Linux user and developer, I really don’t care what version of KDE I have as long as it works. I type yum install kdelibs kdelibs-devel kdeblabla .... (I don’t type yum update because the Fedora Extras repository contains a broken directfb package!!!!) and an hour later or so it was installed. [...] [...] Mike’s past blog entry absolutely hit the nail. I too am a fellow Fedora 4 user. A few days ago I ran yum check-update. And look! Shiny KDE updates! Even though I’m an avid Linux user and developer, I really don’t care what version of KDE I have as long as it works. I type yum install kdelibs kdelibs-devel kdeblabla …. (I don’t type yum update because the Fedora Extras repository contains a broken directfb package!!!!) and an hour later or so it was installed. [...]

]]> By: Mike http://mikehearn.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/revisiting-windows-xp/#comment-464 Mike Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:38:59 +0000 http://plan99.net/~mike/blog/?p=11#comment-464 Creo, did you even read my blog entry? I tried the Mono packages from nrpms.net and they're the reason my Fedora install is now trashed. I'm not going there again! Also, I have tried to use the nvidia packages from livna many times, but yum apparently couldn't upgrade them in lock step with kernel upgrades. Whatever the reason I found 3D acceleration often broke when doing a "yum upgrade" and this is not good enough. As to FC5, I really don't care, given that it won't be out until sometime next year and is looking like it won't have many interesting features over FC4. Creo, did you even read my blog entry? I tried the Mono packages from nrpms.net and they’re the reason my Fedora install is now trashed. I’m not going there again!

Also, I have tried to use the nvidia packages from livna many times, but yum apparently couldn’t upgrade them in lock step with kernel upgrades. Whatever the reason I found 3D acceleration often broke when doing a “yum upgrade” and this is not good enough.

As to FC5, I really don’t care, given that it won’t be out until sometime next year and is looking like it won’t have many interesting features over FC4.

]]> By: creo http://mikehearn.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/revisiting-windows-xp/#comment-463 creo Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:39:29 +0000 http://plan99.net/~mike/blog/?p=11#comment-463 "My current dilemma is - FC4 again, or Ubuntu? The ‘Core has ticked me off many times in the past, most notably with their absolutely blind refusal to do anything about software I actually like and use such as the nVidia drivers, or Mono based apps" rpm.livna.org already includes nvidia trivial to setup and mono apps are being build probably based on nrpms.net. FC5 development branch blows the rest away “My current dilemma is – FC4 again, or Ubuntu? The ‘Core has ticked me off many times in the past, most notably with their absolutely blind refusal to do anything about software I actually like and use such as the nVidia drivers, or Mono based apps”

rpm.livna.org already includes nvidia trivial to setup and mono apps are being build probably based on nrpms.net. FC5 development branch blows the rest away

]]> By: creo http://mikehearn.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/revisiting-windows-xp/#comment-462 creo Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:37:44 +0000 http://plan99.net/~mike/blog/?p=11#comment-462 "SELinux support for ubuntu is coming. It’s already available in synaptic in some form (haven’t tried it). See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SELinux" Thats nowhere near Fedora's level of support and FC5 will have a new reference policy which makes administration much easier. Since basically most of the code in the kernel and full user space maintenance is from redhat thats not too surprising. The have like a dozen developers working on it as opposed to Ubuntu's teenage kid “SELinux support for ubuntu is coming. It’s already available in synaptic in some form (haven’t tried it). See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SELinux”

Thats nowhere near Fedora’s level of support and FC5 will have a new reference policy which makes administration much easier. Since basically most of the code in the kernel and full user space maintenance is from redhat thats not too surprising. The have like a dozen developers working on it as opposed to Ubuntu’s teenage kid

]]> By: Mike http://mikehearn.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/revisiting-windows-xp/#comment-461 Mike Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:41:13 +0000 http://plan99.net/~mike/blog/?p=11#comment-461 Actually I was at one point a TransGaming subscriber, but apparently Second Life no longer runs on Cedega. Yay regressions. WineHQ has improved a lot these days, I could perhaps make it work OK with a bit of effort. We'll see how much effort I feel like putting it. Actually I was at one point a TransGaming subscriber, but apparently Second Life no longer runs on Cedega. Yay regressions. WineHQ has improved a lot these days, I could perhaps make it work OK with a bit of effort. We’ll see how much effort I feel like putting it.

]]> By: Isak http://mikehearn.wordpress.com/2005/12/20/revisiting-windows-xp/#comment-460 Isak Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:54:25 +0000 http://plan99.net/~mike/blog/?p=11#comment-460 SELinux support for ubuntu is coming. It's already available in synaptic in some form (haven't tried it). See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SELinux Apt is both a blessing and a curse. I *hate* it when it's anal about dependencies that I know is bogus, but it's rather nice when I want something and can't bother with the details.. just click "install" and get on with my life. Of course, an autopackage of the software in question would be even better... :-) Mono is hopelessly unstable. I don't know if its the unofficial .debs I'm using that are screwed up (probably) or the fact that it's the 1.1.x release I'm using. Beagle can't find stuff and banshee crashes randomly. The official debs are probably more stable, but they are out of date for the latest banshee About gaming: (Hope you don't take offence now, being a wine developer and all ;-) ) Cedega has done some great work on the gaming parts of Wine and it plays a lot of Windows games flawlessly. Many games still doesn't work at all, but I've been playing Warcraft 3 without issues at all (installed it (click click done) and played) no performance problems either. Of course, they charge $5 a month, but you might get a discount since you've written parts of their base code ;-) For me, it's definetly worth the few bucks to be able to have them hold my hand during configuration/installation and provide a pretty GUI to my gaming needs. SELinux support for ubuntu is coming. It’s already available in synaptic in some form (haven’t tried it). See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SELinux

Apt is both a blessing and a curse. I *hate* it when it’s anal about dependencies that I know is bogus, but it’s rather nice when I want something and can’t bother with the details.. just click “install” and get on with my life. Of course, an autopackage of the software in question would be even better… :-)

Mono is hopelessly unstable. I don’t know if its the unofficial .debs I’m using that are screwed up (probably) or the fact that it’s the 1.1.x release I’m using. Beagle can’t find stuff and banshee crashes randomly. The official debs are probably more stable, but they are out of date for the latest banshee

About gaming: (Hope you don’t take offence now, being a wine developer and all ;-) ) Cedega has done some great work on the gaming parts of Wine and it plays a lot of Windows games flawlessly. Many games still doesn’t work at all, but I’ve been playing Warcraft 3 without issues at all (installed it (click click done) and played) no performance problems either. Of course, they charge $5 a month, but you might get a discount since you’ve written parts of their base code ;-)
For me, it’s definetly worth the few bucks to be able to have them hold my hand during configuration/installation and provide a pretty GUI to my gaming needs.

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